I know I'm very emotional on this because I feel like, you know, how could the board -- we have an excellent board in place now. We've got the office straightened out at housing finally in this -- we're in our third year. You know, and I have a lot of respect for the people that are on the board and the people that are running the office right now. But we also have to have positive -- positive responses from this office with some of the problems that these people faced. Most of the people that I've come -- that I brought forward to the Minister about different issues and couch surfing and all these things, none of them have been answered. Oh, I'll follow up, she said that in the last time when we were on -- on the phone there with -- well, I'll follow up. Well, she never followed up. If I don't follow up, I will get no answers. And I think it's -- you know, and the monies that were allocated by the federal government to -- there's a few Indigenous groups. I think there was five or six of them, how did that come about? Like, I'd like to know why they chose those five or six groups that are getting direct Indigenous housing from the federal government, because that's the way that the Indigenous groups want it anyways. And I'm happy that they got it. But what about all the rest? You know, because I remember sitting at a table with the Akaitcho Chiefs, and all of a sudden 59 million's going to the -- to the territorial government, and we never saw a penny of it. And, you know, so it goes on. There's a lot of history to this stuff that I'm saying. And I thought once I sat here, that if my -- my answers, I'd at least get a yes or no answer and be -- and I don't expect special treatment. Absolutely not. I'm not a type of person that expects special treatment. I just want to make sure that my members get housing, that they could stop couch surfing, they could have pride in what they have and they could start changing their lives. That's all I'm asking. And, you know, it's really unbelievable that I have to bring this to the floor, but I have to, because my members in the community of Fort Smith, expect this, and I expect it for them. Everybody has a right to have a house, to have food, and to have the necessities of life, especially the people that usually go into public housing. So with that, I want you to -- I want to know when I'm going to get some of the answers to all my emails. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Frieda Martselos on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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